Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 32B

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.5

Rank #165 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 32B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 44.0 to 37.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 68.7% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 48.7% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $5 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
  • Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.539.2
Released2025-10-152025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K131K
Max output64K16K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$5$2.80
Results tracked5326

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
SciCode43.3%35.4%
LMArena Coding14531358
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
Aider Polyglot—40%
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
WeirdML45.4%—
ALE-Bench653.48—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%48.7%
Terminal-Bench35.5%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—
Vending-Bench 2458.89—

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
CritPt0%0.3%
Chess Puzzles8%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14201334
DTBench73.6%67.5%
LMCA30.9%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.41138.51
ARC-AGI-24%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%66.9%
LMArena Math13961399
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond71.2%65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%5.9%
LMArena Expert14421362
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English13771317
LMArena Chinese14171357
LMArena German13751341
LMArena Russian13811311
LMArena French1408—
LMArena Japanese1339—
LMArena Korean1347—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following14141305
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query14271327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text13961340
LMArena Creative Writing13721297
LMArena Multi-Turn14091331
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Qwen3 32B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 39.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 lists at $1 and $5.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Haiku 4.5 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 32B share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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